Federal investigators say metal fatigue caused a hole to rip open in the roof of a Southwest Airlines jet as it cruised at 35,000 feet last year. The National Transportation Safety Board says the ...

Finally, given a fatigue crack of some size and an applied load of some level, there is a critical material toughness that will trigger a brittle fracture. Figure 2 is a diagram that represents these ...

DALLAS (AP) — A senior Boeing engineer said the company was surprised by Friday’s rupture of the roof of a Southwest Airlines Co. jet because Boeing didn’t expect cracking in the aluminum skin of such ...

In the world of materials sciences, metal fatigue describes the weakening of a material that occurs as a result of being exposed to repeated applied work or stress loads. When a material is exposed to ...

The jet engine fan blade that broke loose Saturday on a United Airlines plane near Denver, triggering a massive failure leading to the grounding of dozens of Boeing Co. 777s, resulted from metal ...

Studying fatigue cracks at the nanoscale: Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ryan Schoell uses a specialized transmission electron microscope technique developed by Khalid Hattar, Dan Bufford and ...

Experiment showed how pieces of pure platinum and copper spontaneously healed cracks Green marks the spot where a fissure formed, then fused back together in this artistic rendering of nanoscale ...

Something of a case study in aviation media communications is taking shape, or rather, cracking up, in relation to ‘minor’ cracks found in the wings of some Airbus A380s, including the Qantas one that ...

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WASHINGTON - In the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a malevolent time-traveling and shape-shifting android called T-1000 that was made of liquid metal demonstrated a unique quality. Hit with ...